Facebook warns its growth is about to 'decelerate significantly' after the pandemic kept people online last year (FB)
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After data from half a billion Facebook users was leaked, the company isn't planning to tell people if they were impacted (FB)
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Facebook is cracking down on violence and misinformation in Groups (FB)
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Sen. Ed Markey wrote a scathing letter to Mark Zuckerberg condemning Facebook groups as 'breeding grounds for hate' and 'venues for coordination of violence' (FB)
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Facebook took out full-page newspaper ads blasting Apple for its iOS update that will make it harder for the social media firm to target users with ads (FB, AAPL)
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'Real Catholics can't be Democrats': Right-wing disinformation campaigns are targeting Latinos in Spanish Facebook and WhatsApp groups (FB)
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Facebook will give employees paid time off to work at polling places on Election Day amid national poll worker shortages (FB)
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Oculus will require people to log in through Facebook before they can use its VR devices, company says (FB)
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Facebook will 'pause' handing over Hong Kong users' data to the government, citing human rights concerns with China's new National Security Law (FB)
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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly brushed aside internal research that Facebook exposed users to more and more extreme views, saying he never wanted the topic brought to him again (FB)
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Facebook is finally giving WhatsApp users a dark mode option — months after other apps made the switch (FB, TWTR, GOOG, GOOGL, AAPL)
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Some Facebook users are seeing a huge increase in friend requests from fake accounts due to a tiny change in how Facebook search works (FB)
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Facebook will let users become 'experts' to cut down on misinformation. It's another attempt to avoid responsibility for harmful content. (FB)
Facebook takes aim at TikTok by letting users earn money off minute-long videos (FB)
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Privacy-focused Facebook competitor MeWe says it's gained more than 2 million users in the past week (FB)
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Facebook just launched a new app named E.gg where users can create 'personalized spaces' that look like Tumblr pages (FB)
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Kenosha protesters who say they were assaulted by right wing militias are suing Facebook for hosting a 'Kenosha Guard' page (FB)
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Facebook will pay hundreds of thousands of users to quit the app ahead of the election so it can study the platform's impact on politics (FB)
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Facebook 'actively promotes' Holocaust denial content to certain users, a new study finds (FB)
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New research finds Andrew Yang's plan for social media firms to buy users' data would cost Facebook 'a whopping $250 billion' — and that many users wouldn't sell at any price (OKTA, FB)
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There's now an easy way to transfer your photos and videos from Facebook to Google Photos — here's how (FB, GOOGL, GOOG)
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Facebook is redesigning Messenger app to prioritize Stories in an attempt to replicate the success of Instagram's killer feature (FB)
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Joe Biden slams Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook for having too much power: 'I've never been a big Zuckerberg fan. I think he's a real problem' (FB)
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Facebook confirms politicians will no longer have a free pass when they break content rules (FB)
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Facebook is making a major change that makes it easier for you to escape the algorithm-based News Feed (FB)
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Facebook says it won't promote political groups in the 'long term,' but struggles to deliver on that promise (FB)
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India is reportedly asking WhatsApp to reverse a controversial change to its privacy policy that critics said would have shared personal user data with Facebook (FB)
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Facebook reported a decline of 2 million daily active users in the US and Canada (FB)
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Instagram and Facebook appear to be down for some users in North America and Europe (FB)
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Facebook reportedly knew about Kenosha militia group before shooting but still chose not to take action until hours after two protesters were killed (FB)
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Conservative outlets regularly have the top-performing posts on Facebook — but Facebook says the full picture is more complicated (FB)
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Facebook is finally going hard on payments in WhatsApp as it tries to make the $19 billion acquisition pay off (FB)
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Facebook was designed to be addictive, but users who broke up with the platform say they can find everything they need elsewhere, especially during a pandemic (FB)
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A new book about Facebook leaves out a glaring detail about Mark Zuckerberg's views toward privacy in the social network's early days (FB)
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Facebook and Instagram are going on the offensive against misinformation around the 2020 US census with a new set of sweeping bans (FB)
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Facebook is testing a video speed-dating service where users have to pledge to create a safe space, be kind — and, please, don't ghost (FB)
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Facebook said its working to get its suite of apps — including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger — working 'as quickly as possible' after users report outages (FB)
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Facebook blows away Q4 expectations, but calls out Apple's iOS privacy change as a 'headwind' for 2021 (FB)
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Facebook is reportedly looking to take on TaskRabbit by allowing people to book gig workers for home repair or freelance jobs (FB)
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Facebook paused efforts to redirect QAnon searches to fact-checks after a glitch showed people information about the conspiracy theory even when they weren't looking for it (FB)
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WhatsApp-tracking apps are letting people spy on when you're sleeping and who you're likely talking to on the Facebook-owned app (FB)
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Facebook reportedly plans to sue Thailand's government over its demand that the company block users within the country from accessing a group critical of its king (FB)
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While Mark Zuckerberg interviewed Anthony Fauci on Facebook, some users posted comments spreading vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories (FB)
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Facebook starts adding labels to 'state-controlled media' and will ban them from running ads in the US ahead of the 2020 election (FB)
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Facebook is suing an Israeli spyware company for allegedly hacking WhatsApp. Now, that company says Facebook tried to buy its spyware in 2017. (FB)
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Facebook is spending $130 million to create a 'Supreme Court' that can overrule Mark Zuckerberg — here's everything we know about it (FB)
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Most Americans fear they've lost control of their personal information, as Facebook and Google continue to dominate the online ad market (GOOG, GOOGL, FB, AAPL)
